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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

date to be fixed by the Board in the month of July in every
second year thereafter.
(2.) The Secretary of the Board shall be the Returning
Officer.
(3.) For the purposes of each election the Returning Officer
shall prepare a roll, and shall enter therein the name, occu-
pation, and address of every person qualified to be enrolled
as a parent of a pupil of the school. The roll shall be closed
at 5 o’clock on the fourteenth day next before the day on which
any election is to be held, and shall continue to be closed
until the election is completed.
“Parent” means the father, if he is living, or, if not, the
mother, or, if neither the father nor the mother is living, the
guardian, of a pupil of the school.
A “pupil of the school” means a pupil whose name is on
the school roll at the close of the term preceding the closing
of the roll, but does not include a pupil in any lower depart-
ment.
(4.) The Returning Officer shall, by advertisement in a
newspaper circulating in the district, publicly notify, not less
than fourteen days before each election,—
(a.) The day and hour for the closing of nominations.
(b.) The total number of candidates to be elected ;
(c.) The day and the hour for the closing of the election ;
(5.) Every candidate shall be nominated in writing by one
or more parents entitled to vote for his election. Each such
parent may nominate any number of candidates not exceed-
ing the number to be elected.
(6.) Every nomination-paper shall be in the form or to the
effect following :—
I, [Name and address], being a parent duly entered on the
roll, do hereby nominate [Name and address] as a candidate
for election to the Board of Governors of the Napier High
Schools at the election to be held on the day of
Dated this day of
[Signature of nominator.]
CANDIDATE’S CONSENT [To be subscribed at the foot of
nomination-paper].
I hereby consent to my nomination.
[Signature of candidate nominated.]
(7.) If the nomination-paper does not bear the written
consent of the candidate nominated, such consent may be
given by him to the Returning Officer before the nominations
are closed, and every nomination-paper shall be void in so far
as concerns any candidate whose written consent is not duly
given as aforesaid.
(8.) Nominations shall close at noon on the tenth day
before the day of the election.
(9.) If the number of nominations received does not exceed
the number of vacancies to be filled, the Returning Officer
shall forthwith declare the candidate or candidates so nomi-
nated to be duly elected. In all other cases he shall, as soon
as the nominations are closed, prepare and post to each
elector, to his address as appearing on the roll, a printed
voting-paper containing in alphabetical order of surnames a
list of all the duly nominated candidates for whom such
parent is entitled to vote; and such voting-paper shall be in
the form or to the effect following :—
VOTING-PAPER FOR USE AT ELECTION TO BE HELD ON THE
DAY OF , 19 , OF MEMBER OF THE
BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE NAPIER HIGH SCHOOLS.
CANDIDATES.
[Set out in alphabetical order of surnames the full name of
every duly nominated candidate.]
[Signature of voter.]
DIRECTIONS.
The number of candidates to be elected is [Specify the
number].
The voter is required to mark a cross in the square set
opposite the name or names of the candidate or candidates
for whom he desires to vote.
The number of candidates whose names are thus marked
must not exceed the total number of candidates to be elected.
This voting-paper must be signed by the voter and en-
closed in a sealed envelope, bearing on the outside thereof the
words “Voting-paper,” and if posted to the Returning Officer
must be posted on or before the day of election, or, if de-
livered to him, shall be delivered at his office,
Street, , before the day of election, or not later than
five o’clock in the afternoon of that day.
(10.) The poll shall close at five o’clock on the afternoon
of the day of election ; but all voting-papers shall be included
and counted which are not informal and are received by the
Returning Officer in due course of post before the close of the
sixth day after the day of the election.
(11.) A voting-paper shall be informal in any of the follow-
ing cases, that is to say :—
(a.) If it is not duly signed by the parent ; or
(b.) If the candidates against whose names a mark is
placed exceed in number the total number of candi-
dates for whom the person is entitled to vote, or
if in any other way the paper fails to indicate clearly
for whom the vote is intended to be given ; or
(c.) If, being delivered to the Returning Officer, the sealed
envelope containing the voting-paper is not de-
livered at his office before the close of the poll ; or
(d.) If, having been forwarded by post, the sealed envelope
containing the voting-paper is not received at the
office of the Returning Officer before the close of
the sixth day after the day of election, or if, from
the postmark on the envelope or otherwise, the
Returning Officer is satisfied that it was not posted
until after the day of the election.
(12.) On the seventh day after the day of election the
Returning Officer shall open and examine all voting-papers
duly delivered to him or received by him through the post
as aforesaid, and, after rejecting all informal voting-papers,
shall ascertain the candidates (not exceeding the total number
to be elected) who have received the greatest number of votes,
and shall declare such candidates to be elected.
(13.) If, by reason of an equality of votes given for two or
more candidates, the election is not complete, the Returning
Officer shall decide by lot, in the presence of two members
of the Board, which candidate or candidates shall be elected,
and thereby complete the election.
(14.) Forthwith after the completion of the election the
Returning Officer shall notify to the Board and to the Minister
the names of the persons elected.
(15.) Retiring members shall be eligible for re-election.
(16.) If any dispute or question arises touching the regu-
larity of any election, such dispute or question shall be deter-
mined by the Stipendiary Magistrate in manner provided by
sections 45 to 54 of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908,
all the provisions of which shall, mutatis mutandis, apply.
3. (1.) Whenever a casual vacancy occurs among the
members so elected as aforesaid, the election of a member
to fill that casual vacancy shall, within fifty days after
the vacancy occurs, be held in a similar manner to that
hereinbefore provided for an ordinary vacancy.
(2.) The member so elected shall hold office only for the
residue of the term of the vacating member.
4. Whenever a casual vacancy is to be filled by the Go-
vernor the Board shall forthwith report the fact that such
vacancy has occurred to the Minister.
5. (1.) The school shall provide a course of general
secondary education and one or more vocational courses.
(2.) The program of each pupil shall be determined by
the principal of each school after consultation with the parents
or guardian of the pupil; but no pupil shall be compelled
to take Latin, or to take more than one language besides
English.
(3.) The fees to be charged to those who are not holders
of scholarships or free places shall be £12 per annum, subject
to a rebate of £1 on each proportional one-third part of such
fees on payment within one month from the date of the com-
mencement of each term.
(4.) The school year shall consist of three terms of about
thirteen weeks each.
(5.) The principal of each school shall cause the school
to be examined during each term; provided that it shall
not be necessary for the school to be so examined in any
term in which it is examined by some other person appointed
by the Minister or the Board; and provided further that
it shall not be necessary to include in such examination pupils
sitting for public examinations during the term.
6. Subject to the general direction and control of the
Board, the headmaster shall have the following powers with
respect to the boys’ school, and the lady principal shall have
similar powers with respect to the girls’ school :—
(1.) He shall have control of the school buildings and pre-
mises, and of the apparatus and furniture thereof.
(2.) He shall have the power to recommend the appoint-
ment or dismissal of assistant teachers or of other officers of
the school, and to allot their several duties ; and no assistant
teacher or other officer of the school shall be appointed until
the headmaster has been consulted.
(3.) He shall have the power in cases of grave neglect of
duty or of gross misbehaviour to suspend any assistant
teacher or other officer, but shall forthwith report his action
to the Chairman of the Board, who shall thereupon confirm
or overrule his action until the next meeting of the Board,
when the matter may be determined; but the action of the
headmaster shall hold good until the Chairman or the Board
has determined the matter.
(4.) He shall be supreme over the discipline, and may sus-
pend any pupil, reporting his action to the Board at its next
meeting, and the action of the headmaster shall hold good
until the Board has come to some determination in regard to